Donald Trump threatened Canada’s Mark Carney during his rambling Davos speech on Wednesday (21 January), where he claimed that the nation “only lives because of the United States”. During his address at the World Economic Forum, the US president said that Ottawa should be “grateful” to Washington for all the “freebies” it receives. “Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” he said. It comes after Mr Carney warned that the old world order was in the “midst of a rupture” and was “not coming back,” during his own speech in Switzerland on Tuesday (20 January).
Presently yes, that’s correct. But that’s just par for the course when we we’ve been nested right next to the global hegemon for the entire post-war period.
With our ties to the former British empire and vast resource wealth, we could have / still can chart a new course if we chose/choose to. We just chose the path of least resistance for the last 80 years and foolishly thought that would just never end.